On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:51:31PM -0400, jurvis lasalle wrote:
> 
> On Saturday, Oct 4, 2003, at 09:55 America/New_York, Toomas Aas wrote:
> 
> >Hi!
> >
> >>I have a mixed Linux/Intel Solaris/Sparc environment.  The tape drive
> >>resides on the sparc box.  Will I be able to restore dumps to the 
> >>Linux
> >>box using amrestore?
> >
> >Yes, if you run amrestore on the Linux box.
> >
> 
> Let me see if I have this straight- running the amrestore command from 
> the linux dump client will access the tape drive on the solaris dump 
> server after telling me which tapes to put in.  Sounds too good to be 
> true...

>From a security perspective, I think I would prefer to be able to ask
a remote system to send me the files I want rather than give that
remote system permission to write what it wants to my system.

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